Incubator

An Incubator incubates the eggs of critters until they are ready to hatch. Eggs inside an Incubator can be lullabied by a Duplicant rancher, giving the egg a buff for one cycle that increases the incubation speed by up to 400% (5 times faster). For example, Pacu naturally take 5 cycles to hatch at 20% incubation per cycle, and the "lullabied" status adds 80% to this rate, guaranteeing the Pacu egg to hatch in 1 cycle.

Once the critter hatches inside the incubator, a duplicant will take it to a Critter Drop-Off. Critters can be also removed from the incubator by pressing the "Remove" button. If left inside the incubator (due to low priority or no critter drop offs with space available), the critter will leave incubator on their own when they turn into an adult.

Assigned duplicants must have the Critter Ranching I skill.

Automation
A disabled incubator will not consume any power and will be unable to be lullabied by a Duplicant. Duplicants will still bring an egg to a disabled incubator.

However, if an egg is lullabied and the incubator subsequently left unpowered, the egg will retain the increased incubation rate until the effect wears off. This can be combined with a clock sensor to the run the incubators briefly during part of the day and setting their priority high so that eggs receive the increased incubation rate without the increased power consumption.

Инкубатор 孵化器